Sentence per picture.

Hi-Chews come in second place especially when eaten while drooling over 400 outfits that I need from the J. Crew catalogue.

Why are backpacks and helmets 5 trillion times cuter on kids compared to adults?

Hooked on turkey bacon and jam is a must on all of my family’s grilled cheese sandwiches.

Brooke will be gone this weekend so I am stealing as many kisses as possible and keeping her up way past her bedtime for some quality time together.

Jess has a killer 1/2 trail marathon this weekend (with over 2,000 ft elevation gain) and so I am being a good friend and helping her carb load for the big day.

The Wednesday night softball games are always a good time and penguin blanket accompanies me.

I will be doing THIS ab workout today after my 90 minutes of pool running (ps to track my ‘mileage’ in the pool I am just saying 1 mile = 10 minutes of pool running).

REMEMBER THESE COOKIES—> I have the recipe for you now!

Best cookies you will ever have:

1 c butter

1 c sugar

1 c packed brown sugar

2 large eggs

1tsp vanilla

2 c flour

1tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

2.5 c blended oatmeal (2.5 cups before you blend)

1/2 tsp salt

12 oz chocolate chips

1 4 oz grated hershey bar

Blend oatmeal to fine powder. Cream butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powders and baking soda. Add chocolate chips and grated Hershey bar. Refrigerate dough for a few hours. Bake at 375 until cookies are light brown on top (about 10 minutes). These cookies are best when you make them extra big.

My quad started feeling a tiny bit better last night, I am guessing that means I will be running by the end of next week… playing it beyond safe this time around.

During my last few runs, I’ve listened to Fancy on repeat. Now I know the entire song and can probably rap it…I guess it’s not really rap though. Anyways-I need to carb load with you because you do it the right way. Although I’m more into carbloading with massive diner pancakes followed by ice cream. LOL.

Straight from the source:
It’s 2.5 cups of oatmeal before the blend. Which is important because it makes the dough more dense which allows it to better retain it’s shape and thus undercooked to perfection center.

Jill

Hope the quad feels better don’t let it stress u out too much! I have a half marathon race next weekend and have a bit of plantar fasciitis. Luckily it only hurts after running and not during but I’ve been working it out as best I can before the big day.

OH MY GOSH! I forgot to tell you I made your S’mores bars! I risked my life! I’m Celiac so I can’t actually touch flour or any kind of gluten. It was a rough day. But I did it anyway to make it for my work friends and my husband before he left for an overseas job. I included the Rolos.

They all love me now. A lot. Amazing. Thanks! I altered them, no graham crackers. But they loved them anyway! Thanks!

Hayley C

I went to get a massage this morning (since I was stupid, unlike you and ran a half marathon when i wasn’t ready :)) and he brought out the scraper! It killed but needless to say I am feeling a LOT better!

Laura Neuffer

I appreciate that you have a countdown until the marathon, I’m running the same one and am not keeping track as well as you are. AND I’m also nursing an injury (shin splints). Same boat, sister. See you at the start :D

Lauren Fleshman is awesome! She lives in Bend, OR (where I live) and is always doing really cool stuff in the community. Just yesterday she put together a “shake it out” run in prep for the local half marathon (Happy Girls Half) this weekend. No joke about her abs. :)

Erica

Erica

Christina

Have a headache and cold haven’t ran since 5k last Saturday. Plus having sciatica pain. Felt like a champ sat after 5k. Now I feel like an 80 year old old lady…except for the one who ran the 5k last week. She rocked.

I’m excited about the cookie recipe! I just checked and Hershey bars (personal size) are peanut free and I can buy them here. Now all I have to do is find a blender for the oats. (or maybe you could just send a batch over to Oz!).

Jess

Rebecca

I made the cookies. Please note, the directions say 1-4oz. Hershey bar not 14 oz. like I did! I couldn’t figure out why the dough was so stiff and I read the directions again and realized I misunderstood! 14oz. is two of the BIG Hershey bars……what was I thinking! They are still very good but a little too chocolatey if that’s possible!

IslandRunnerGirl

Hey Rebecca,
I made the cookies too. I didn’t have a Hershey bar, so I used extra chocolate chips. But the dough was crazy stiff and after refrigerating, was too stiff to work with. Sad face. :( :( :( My boyfriend kept asking if I missed a liquid or something, as we ended up having to throw most of the dough away. Shame!! Let me know if anyone figures it out!